Macaroni with butter or cheese tastes great. Today I experimented cooking butter macaroni for evening snacks. My son was crazy today to have some pasta.  I had some macaroni at home and I tried this pasta recipe. Macaroni is a machine made dry pasta which is hollow and a fun recipe  for the kids.

I thought of sharing this simple yet very tasty pasta recipe with all of you. Hope you enjoy this as well.

It hardly takes 5-10 minutes to prepare.

What you need for ingredients are:

• Macaroni – 2 &1/2 cup boiled macaroni
• Garlic – 5 cloves
• Butter – 2 tablespoon
• Onion – 1 medium size (chopped)
• Salt to taste
• Oregano – 1/2 teaspoon
• Black pepper to taste

Its very easy to prepare:

1. In a frying pan put the butter and heat
2. Add garlic and onion and fry for a minute or two
3. Add the macaroni
4. Add salt and black pepper to taste and mix well
5. Sprinkle oregano and mix lightly

Its ready to serve. Yummy! Enjoy!

June 24th, 2009 | Category: Pasta, Snacks & Starters, Yummy Kids | Leave a comment

We have this ‘Hot Buttery Sweet Corn’ in so many stalls especially in the malls. It tastes great and the children are crazy about it.

I prepared this at home today evening and it tasted exactly like the ones we have in the ‘road side’ stalls.

It took me 10 minutes to completely prepare this. The quantity of 2 cups was good for three of us.

To prepare the buttery corn, you need:

- Corn 2 cups (I used frozen sweet corn)
- Butter 1 teaspoon full
- Lemon juice 2-3 teaspoon
- Salt and Black pepper 2 taste

Now, boil corn for 5 mins in high heat. Then drain the water from the corn. In a container, mix the corn, butter, black pepper, salt and lemon juice.

Thats it! Its ready to serve hot.

If you wish you may add a pint of red chilly powder. However, it may be too hot for the kids.

April 11th, 2009 | Tags: Corn | Category: Corn, Snacks & Starters, Yummy Kids | Leave a comment

Coleslaw sandwich is a very easy to prepare vegetable sandwich which is very healthy and tasty. Children too like it and it is often appropriate to pack it for their school tiffin as well.

Serves: 2

Time to prepare: 15 minutes

Ingredients Required:

• Bread (white or brown) – 4 slices
• Carrot – finely chopped – 2 tablespoon
• Cabbage – finely chopped – 2 tablespoon
• Onion – finely chopped – 1 tablespoon
• Mayonnaise – 2 tablespoon full
• Salt and black pepper to taste

Method:

• Mix the finely chopped carrot, cabbage, onion with the proportion of mayonnaise, salt and black pepper
• After mixing well you would observe a smooth paste that would be formed
• Refrigerate the mixed paste for about half an hour
• Cut the bread slices in triangular shape
• Spread the paste between the bread slices and serve

Coleslaw sandwich is really so easy to cook.

March 28th, 2009 | Tags: Bread, Sandwich | Category: Bachelor Cooking, Bread, Breakfast, Yummy Kids | Leave a comment

Tangra maacher jhal is a typical Bengali recipe. ‘Tangra’ is a type of fish (see photo below). Here we prepare a Tangra fish recipe with mustard. It is ideal to be served with hot rice. We may also call this fish recipe – Tangra Fish masala or Tangra fish in mustard gravy.

Tangra Maacher jhal

• Preparation time: 10 minutes
• Cooking time: 25 minutes

• Servings – 6 pieces

Ingredients

• Tangra fish – 6 pieces
• Mustard oil – 5 table spoon
• Tomato – 1 medium size finely chopped
• Salt – 2/3 tea spoon (or taste to salt)
• Turmeric powder (haldi) – 1/4 tea spoon
• Green Chili – 5 pieces
• Water – 1 cup
• Mustard seed paste – 2 table spoon full
• Panch phoron – 1/2 tea spoon

What is panch phoron?Read this Wikipedia link

How to cook Tangra Macher jhal

1. Clean the fishes well in running water and smear it with salt and turmeric powder
2. Paste the mustard seeds along with green chilies and a pinch of turmeric powder
3. Heat the oil and semi fry the fishes
4. Take the fishes out of the oil and add panch phoron, tomato, salt, green chilies and haldi and fry for 1/2 minute
5. Add fish and a cup of water and boil for 2-3 minutes
6. Add mustard seed paste and mix well

Tangra macher jhal is now ready. Garnish with green chilies and serve with hot plain rice.

November 25th, 2008 | Tags: Bengali recipe, Fish Recipe, Tangra | Category: Fish, Lunch & Dinner | Leave a comment

Cucumber sandwich is another very easy sandwich recipe which is a favourite of kids. Yesterday I shared how you can make carrot sandwich. Today I share the cucumber sandwich recipe which is prepared in a similar way though ingredients are slightly different. This is a very easy recipe and a quick recipe of vegetarian sandwich which you can pack for your kids’ tiffin or lunch box for school.

Cucumber Sandwich

• Preparation time – 10 mins
• Serves – 2

Ingredients required for cucumber sandwich

• Bread – 4 slices
• Grated cucumber – 4 table spoon full
• Tomato – 1 table spoon of finely chopped tomato
• Mayonnaise – 2 table spoon full
• A pinch of salt
• A pinch of black pepper

Method

1. Mix the grated cucumber, chopped tomato, mayonnaise, salt and black pepper in a bowl
2. Split the bread from the corners to make triangular bread slices
3. Put the mixed ingredients (from point 1) between two slices of bread
4. Your cucumber sandwich is ready to eat

This is also a healthy vegan breakfast.

November 23rd, 2008 | Tags: Bread, Sandwich, Veggie | Category: Bread, Breakfast, Cucumber, Yummy Kids | Leave a comment

Carrot sandwich is a very healthy sandwich. It is a very easy sandwich recipe which is a favourite with moms. We often see the kids do not like to eat vegetable. But this sandwich is so tasty that it is loved by kids as well.  This is also a quick kids recipe which you can pack for your children to carry for school lunch or even pack it when the family goes out for a picnic.

• Preparation time – 10 mins
• Serves – 2

Ingredients required for carrot sandwich

• Bread – 4 slices
• Grated carrot – 4 table spoon full
• Onion – 1 table spoon of finely chopped onion
• Mayonnaise – 2 table spoon full
• Cheese – 2 slices
• A pinch of salt
• A pinch of black pepper

Method

1. Mix the grated carrot, chopped onion, mayonnaise, salt and black pepper in a bowl
2. Cut the bread and cheese into triangle shape
3. Put the spread (from point 1) between two slices of bread and add a layer of cheese slice
4. Your carrot sandwich is ready to serve. Serve with your preferred choice of sauce.

November 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Bread, Sandwich, Veggie | Category: Bread, Breakfast, Carrot, Yummy Kids | Leave a comment

Boiling eggs stored in the refrigerator

In case you store eggs in the refrigerator, this tip may be of interest to you.

In our fast life style, we often boil eggs just after bringing them out of the refrigerator. I have often done that and seen the eggs to crack while hard boiling them. To prevent this, keep the eggs out of the refrigerator for about half an hour to let it come to the room temperature before boiling them.

Hard boiling eggs

Also, while hard boiling eggs we sometimes find that eggs crack within the water itself. Put a bit of salt in the water and you would find that you have hard boiled eggs without any of them cracking.

November 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Egg | Category: Cooking Tips | Leave a comment

Making a preparation of boiled eggs like egg curry often require the eggs to be fried.

When you fry a boiled egg ensure that you slit the side of the egg. This is a must and would prevent the egg from bursting.

November 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Egg | Category: Cooking Tips | Leave a comment

Creamy chicken is a dish I had in a dhaba over the weekend. We liked it so much that I tried to emulate the taste at home. I am almost there with the taste! My experiment with the ingredients have workd and the creamy chicken at home has almost been like the creamy chicken at the dhaba! Its very easy to cook. Just follow the steps and you will be ready with the tasty creamy chicken in about half an hour.

• Preparation time:10 minutes
• Cooking time: 20 minutes
• Serves: 2

Ingredients required:

1. Chicken (boneless) – 200 gms
2. Hung curd – 1 table spoon (Take the curd in a cloth and drain the water out to prepare ‘hung curd’
3. Garlic paste – 1/2 teaspoon
4. White oil – 3 table spoon
5. Onion – 1 small – finely chopped
6. Fresh cream – 3 table spoon
7. Muskmelon seeds paste (magazdana paste) -  2 table spoon
8. Garam masala – 1/2 tea spoon
9. Black pepper powder – 1 tea spoon
10. Water – 1 cup
11. Salt – 1/2 tea spoon (taste to salt)
12. Green chilli – 1 piece
13. Butter – 1 table spoon

How to cook creamy chicken:

1. Make a paste of the muskmelon seeds and the green chili
2. Mix garlic paste in the hung curd and marinade the chicken in it for 10-15 minutes (If you are in a hurry, you may not marinade as well)
3. Heat the white oil
4. Add the finely chopped onion and fry it lightly till the colour changes
5. Add the garam masala and black pepper to the onion and stir fry till oil separates
6. Now add the marinade chicken and fry for a minute or two
7. Add a cup of water, add salt and cover the chicken to boil for 5 minutes
8. Open the cover and add the muskmelon paste and mix well. Let it boil for a minute.
9. Add the fresh cream and butter.
10. Now sprinkle with black pepper which actually does the garnishing for the dish as well.

Creamy chicken is best served with Indian bread (roti) or parantha. If you can make roomali roti, then it is a great combination with creamy chicken.

August 26th, 2008 | Tags: Chicken Recipe | Category: Chicken, Lunch & Dinner | Leave a comment